NEWS FETCH – December 13, 2013

TOP NEWS

• Buy Into A Winery With Bitcoin
• Kurniawan Trial: “Forgeries And Lies”
• Aussie Wine Federation To Push “Buy Australia First” (pdf)
• Global Alc Beverage Market to Reach $1.4 Trillion
• Constellation Renews With Republic In 9 Markets

• The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

CALIFORNIA BRIEFS

• Time to call California water shortage an emergency
• Mendo winery gets 1-month license suspension
• Exploring the El Dorado County wine region
• Brecon Estate winery remodeling old Paso property

• The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

HARVEST 2013

• Rioja harvest late but outlook optimistic
• CO: Chilly temps freeze grapes, creating early ice wine harvest
• NY: Ice wine harvest comes early in Finger Lakes

RUDY, RUDY, RUDY

• Wine ‘Sherlock Holmes’ testifies against accused fraudster

COLLECTING & AUCTIONS

• Burgundy continues unstoppable auction run
• Sotheby’s Sunken Gruaud-Larose Treasure
• Sherry-Lehmann weighs-up NY auction return
• Liv-ex interview with Antonio Galloni, part one
• Why Bordeaux may have to rethink its latest vintage

• Investing in Liquid Assets: Uncorking Profits in Today’s Global Wine Market [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

MARKETING & PROMOTION

• 28% of all purchases bought on impulse
• How to send effective holiday emails
• How to Grow Your Holiday Campaign
• LVMH: Luxury Retail Training Program for Chinese-Americans
• Distilled Spirits Council Provides Responsible Drinking PSA to TV Stations

SALES

• Consumers to Increase Holiday Shopping at Convenience Stores
• Liquor Expansion By Coborn’s Is Latest Move In Midwest Consolidation

• Wine Brands: Success Strategies for New Markets, New Consumers and New Trends [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH

• Vinomofo expands into physical retail and a 30-man phone team
• Gmail’s tweak won’t stop e-mail marketers from knowing if you open their e-mail
• FINALLY! A legitimate use for Facebook’s Graph Search?
• Tesco breaks online wine sales record

MEDIA MATTERS

• U.S. Wine Culture Increasingly Confident
• PR Lesson: Better to fix problems fast than let it fester
• Wark’s 10 Most Compelling Wine Blog Posts of 2013
• Book Review: The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide To Becoming A Wine Expert,

• Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

MATTERS OF TASTE

• Two wines from Aldi, and the differences in cheap wine
• Old California Wine
• Craft wine and natural beer – don’t forget to have fun!
• Recent move to sweeter wines now heads to port
• Eric Boissenot, most influential wine consultant in the World
• French Wine Society plans wine immersion trips to France

• The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

MANAGEMENT & EMPLOYMENT

• HR Tech, Wine and the Art of Thanks
• Getting Started in the Business: Licensing

• Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise) [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

REGULATION & COMPLIANCE

• Serious Considerations Before Shipping Interstate

OH CANADA!

• First BC Liquor Policy Review Changes Help Local Wineries

• Canadian Wineries: The story of Canada’s entry into the world of world-class vintages [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

REGIONAL WINE NEWS

• Grand Coulee Pump fire sparks worry over Columbia Basin irrigation
• MD: Wine industry sees growth
• MO: Wine in the Show Me State
• OR: Vineyard manager says vines OK After Freeze
• OR: OSU ag college enrollment growing
• TN: Wine in grocery stores, maybe 2014
• VA: ABC makes record profit
• VA: Tareq Salahi accused of overcharging wine tour guests

AG, GROWER & CELLAR NEWS

• Crazy ants are coming for you
• GMO apple stirs up storm in industry

• Postmodern Winemaking: Rethinking the Modern Science of an Ancient Craft [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

EUROPE & THE UK

• “What Wine Where: Garnacha.”

• Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

DOWN UNDER

• Wine Australia responds to ‘lack of support’ criticism
• Nobel Prize-winning scientist to join the AWRI board

ASIA & PACIFIC RIM

• Shanghai Jinfeng Wine gets regulatory approval to issue shares
• Singapore Storage Signals Confidence in Asia Wine Sales

NOT JUST FOR THE TRADE

• The 19 Hottest Wine Bars

• Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey [Sponsored Holiday Shopping Link]

CRAFT BEER & SPIRITS

• Single hop beers, an interesting geeky angle on beer
• Q&A with a Sail & Anchor brewer

JUST CAN’T MAKE CRAZY STUFF LIKE THIS UP

• Study Shows Bond Was An Impotent Lush
• The New Wine Fairy Tales: The Talking Fish